“Are you looking to get Joan Mir out of Honda?” Another rider eyes exit?

Mir has endured a horrible 2023 since swapping 🧸Suzuki for Repsol Honda, only completing one out of eight grands prix so far.
He is contracted until the end of 2024 as 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez’s team🅰m𓆉ate but, such is the state of Honda’s problems, his manager has been asked if he could exit early.
Paco Sanchez was asked if he is trying to get Mir out of Honda, but replied to : “No. The goal is to fulfil the contract with Honda and try to make thatඣ bike competitive.&n𓂃bsp;
“It is not an easy mission. Great r🌊iders have passed through Honda these years, such as Jorge Lorenzo, Pol Espargaro, Alex Márquez and Dani Pedrosa in their last years, all of them having a hard time.
“Even Marc Marquez had a hard time, because he won with a brutal number🌄 of fall♒s.”
Sanchez was forc🐓ed to defend his professional relationship with Mir, denying that they are set to part ways.
“I can not say anything e༺lse. I don't know who has an inte♏rest in leaking fake news,” he hit back.
“My relationship with Joan is perfect and I don't know what will happen in the future, because it's not written, but♔ I can say that today it's a great relationship, ꦫnot only on a professional level but also on a personal level.
𝓀“I appreciate Joan and love him ver🅘y much, almost like a son, and we have an extraordinary relationship.”
Does Mir feel similarly?
“I understand yes, because he has shown it to me𝔍 and continues to show it to me day by day,” San꧙chez said.
“In the future we will see how it goes, but today the reཧlationship is perfect.
“These are all made up hoaxes.”

Three of Honda’s four riders sat out the Dutch MotoꦓGP with injuries, a scathing indictment on the ma🌼chinery at their disposal.
2020 MotoGP champion Mir suffered with a hand injury but th🌳e summer break shouldౠ enable him to recover.
“He is recovering from the injury and I think that for Silverst🧸one he will be 100 per cent🍨,” Sanchez said.
Mir’s arrival at Honda alongside Marquez was quite a coup - a duo of ex-world ♈champions who, on paper, looked a formidable unit.
Mir’s nightmare st🌜art to Honda life is only mirrored by his esteemed teammate’🅘s even worse season so far.
“Mentally he cannot be happy, because things are not going🍷 as expected,”🃏 Sanchez said about Mir.
“We don't really know why and it's difficult to find the reason why the bike doesn💜't quite work as he wanted for his riding style, but that's the reality.
“At the moment he cannot ride and show his talent and speeꦓd with that bike.”
M💜arquez’s five falls at the German MotoGP, before he withdrew from the grand prix, came on the same bike that the absent Mir rides.
“It was not good news to see ꦦMarc falling so many times,ꦑ” Sanchez said.
“That is not 🅺good news for anyone, neither for Honda nor for him.
“What Mir wants is for this project to go ahead, for the bike to work, for him to be able to demonstrate his talent and give𝄹 Honda back the confidence he was given when he signed him.
“Marc's falls cannot give him joy or make him ꦆright.
“Wha🐽t we are looking for is something else, it is that all the Honda riders work well, that th🎃ey find their position and the set-up that allows them to fight for the front positions, which is what they signed for, not to fight for 18th.
“I wouldn't sayღ it's a treacherous bike. It is a critical motorcycle and it has 🦹been so for several years, but it has come together in a year in which Ducati has taken a giant leap forward, with solutions that others have not found.
“Thei൲r bikes are dominating the championship, even turning it into a Ducati Cup. Right now, the bike is way abov🧔e the rider.
“In the rider-bike pair𒁏ing, before it was 70-30 and now it is 40-60 or 30-70.”

James was a🍃 sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.